Kruger Park Safari Swaziland Zululand 5 Day Tour - GOLD - Departing MONDAYS & THURSDAYS. (SCJD - G) 

TOUR NAME : South African Wild Life Explorer - GOLD.
CODE :SCJD-G.
MEALS INCLUDED : Breakfast and Dinner.
DEPARTURE : Mondays and Thursdays at 07:30.
DURATION : 5 Days, 4 Nights.
ROUTING : Johannesburg - Mpumalanga - Kruger National Park - Swaziland - Zululand - Durban.
SPECIAL NOTES :Bring sun block and an insect repellant along. Please take your passport with as we enter Swaziland. Ensure you have a multi entry visa into South Africa if you need a visa to enter into South Africa.
MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS : An anti-malaria drug is highly recommended.
DRESS REQUIREMENTS : Comfortable casual and smart casual for the evenings, warm windbreakers/jackets for the night game drives in open vehicle.

DAY 1 - Johannesburg – Panoramic Route - Sabie.
Our first day on tour takes us from Johannesburg via Middelburg, Dullstroom and Ohrigstad to the magnificent Three Rondavels view site at the Blyde River Canyon. We travel further to marvel at scenic areas such as Bourke’s Luck Potholes (a walk down the hill to see this unique trick of nature is worth the experience), Lisbon Falls, God’s Window and the Pinnacle before a short visit to Pilgrim’s Rest, an early gold mining town declared a National Monument. Rich deposits of alluvial gold were found here at the end of the last century and hence the existence of the town deep in the mountains.
We overnight in Sabie.

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DAY 2 - Sabi – Kruger National Park.
After an early breakfast, we do a pleasant walk through indigenous forest to see the Lone Creek Falls. Then we follow a scenic route to Hazyview and enter the Kruger National Park. We spend the rest of day in this magnificent reserve around 2 million ha in extent.
We overnight in the reserve in chalets in one of the rest camps.

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DAY 3 - Kruger National Park - Swaziland.
We rise early for a game drive and return for breakfast in the camp. We spend the rest of the morning in the reserve and depart in the afternoon for the mountain Kingdom of Swaziland for a visit to the Ngwenya glass factory where all the items are hand made from recycled glass. We drive through the capital, Mababane, and continue to Mhlambanyatsi.
We overnight in the mountains at Foresters Arms.

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DAY 4 - Swaziland – Zululand – Hluhluwe Umfolozi Park.
Today starts with a visit to Swazi Candles in the Malkerns Valley to watch the locals hand-moulding a large variety of interesting candles. Then we traverse through the Ezulwini Valley and past the National Stadium and Buildings of Parliament to visit the well-known local craft market. We continue via Manzini, the country's industrial centre, and Big Bend with its large sugar plantations, to the South African border. We travel past Mkuze to Hluhluwe/Umfolozi Park and arrive mid afternoon for our overnight stop at Hilltop Camp. Before dinner we do a late afternoon/early night game drive on an open safari vehicle equipped with high-powered spotlights to search for the shy nocturnal animals in the oldest game reserve in Africa.
Overnight stop at Hilltop Camp.

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DAY 5 - Hluhluwe Umfolozi Park – Lake St Lucia - Durban.
After an early breakfast we do our final game drive before traveling to the village of St Lucia. Here we cruise by boat on the famous St. Lucia Estuary, a paradise boasting bird species such as fish eagle, Goliath heron and many more. Your skipper/guide will show you the world of the hippo and the crocodile, and the other mystic inhabitants of the "deep". After an unforgettable experience we travel to Durban where our tour terminates.